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In the final part of her series on women workers in struggle, Jane Hardy talks to women who organised and took part in a successful strike over equal pay.

In the second part of her series on women workers, Jane Hardy celebrates the Birmingham home care workers’ inspiring fight.

With the Tories’ latest anti-union attacks set to become law, Mark L Thomas argues that there are ways to initiate struggle that can help stregthen workplace organisation, and prepare for clashes to come.

The fourth part of our series on the Wobblies looks at the role of women in the workers’ and socialist movement.

Anyone who is feeling a little demoralised and frustrated by the lack of strikes in the UK should add this book to their Christmas list, and then make sure they take some time out to read it. Everyone knows about the booming Chinese economy, and many people know about the horrendous working conditions of those...

The low level of industrial struggle is in contrast to the huge political earthquake of Corbynism. How can socialists work within this contradiction, asks Julie Sherry

“Strike to win”, “Unity is strength”, “Workers’ solidarity”. Old fashioned? Yes, but these trade union slogans have never been more relevant than today. All of the above is enshrined in the ethos of the Grangemouth trade unions hub — where various unions across different sectors have joined forces. The hub was founded just after the...

The supposedly endless rise of precarity is not as straightforward as it seems.

The junior doctors' dispute has combined with teachers’ anger and the Tory crisis to present new opportunities

Further Education lecturers in Scotland won a stunning victory in March after just one day of planned all-out strike action. Lecturers' union activists Donny Gluckstein and Penny Gower draw out the lessons we can all learn from their methods of organising.

Junior doctors announced three 48 hour strikes as SR went to press: 9 to 11 March, 6 to 8 April and 26 to 28 April. As this comes after the imposition of the new contract it is a significant escalation. A poll found 66 percent of people in England support for junior doctors’ strikes, with...

Workers face a massive challenge in taking on the Tories' anti-trade union bill. Julie Sherry draws the lessons from the steady trickle of victorious localised disputes.